Tag Archives: Biomedical Engineering
New Technology for Growing Printed Tissues for Transplantation
Researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed an innovative technology for growing tissue for transplantation by printing it into a microgel bath as support material. The research, published in Advanced Science, was led by Professor Shulamit Levenberg and her doctoral student Majd Machour from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering along with… Read More
Designing and Programming Living Computers
Bringing together concepts from electrical engineering and bioengineering tools, Technion and MIT scientists collaborated to produce cells engineered to compute sophisticated functions – “biocomputers” of sorts. Graduate students and researchers from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Professor Ramez Daniel's Laboratory for Synthetic Biology & Bioelectronics worked together with Professor Ron Weiss from the Massachusetts… Read More
The Path to Healthy Aging
Life expectancy is consistently increasing thanks to progress in health care, science, and technology. However, longer lives have not meant an improved quality of life for the elderly. In response to this important global challenge, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has gathered researchers from different faculties in order to establish the Healthy Aging… Read More
Preventing Chemo-Caused Hair Loss
Unprecedented achievements for the Technion - Israel Institite of Technology synthetic biology team at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, held in Paris from October 26 to 28. The students won a gold medal, were ranked first in the Bio-manufacturing and Measurement categories, and ended in the Top 10 overall. The group are engineering… Read More
Robotic Chemistry: A Significant Step on the Way to Nanoscale Medicine
Researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed an automatic system for the design and preparation of stabilizing materials to produce a “nanometric package” – a platform for delivering drugs to cancer tumors in the body. In an article published in the journal Biomaterials, the researchers report that by using the innovative… Read More
Precision Medicine
This year’s Annual Project Presentation Conference at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Biomedical Engineering was awarded to students Maya Almagor and Roni Baron. Under the supervision of Professor Yuval Garini, the two developed a technology for spectral imaging of cancer biopsies for precision medicine. According to the students, “Personalized medicine is… Read More
Technion Inaugurates MRI Research Center
The first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was performed on a live patient nearly 50 years ago. Since then, the method has become indispensable for performing non-invasive imaging of internal bodily structures and the brain. While the conventional radiological imaging technique is already well established around the world, many advanced methods and other MRI applications… Read More
Window to the Nervous System
New material developed in a joint study between the Technion and the University of Chicago paves the way for restoring damaged nerve tissue and heart pacing through an external light source on the body. It is based on the concept that light projected into the body (near-infrared) will hit a membrane made of the new… Read More
The Steak is the Limit
The successful creation of edible muscle fibers by bioprinting a plant-based scaffold and living animal cells is the subject of a new article by Professor Shulamit Levenberg and Ph.D. student Iris Ianovici of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, in collaboration with cultured meat producers Aleph Farms. Other… Read More
AI Center Inaugural Datathon
The new Technion-Rambam Center for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (CAIH) – a joint initiative of Rambam Health Care Campus and the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - organized a Datathon - an information-based competition - as its inaugural event. Eight teams and 50 participants worked on four challenges proposed by Rambam physicians. The event… Read More